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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave

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Speaker 1: Pash Podcast. I'm your host, Dave Pash, ESPN and Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals play by play announcer. Our guest this week is

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Speaker 1: one of the best players in the NBA, Damian Lillard.

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Speaker 1: Six time All NBA, six time All Star, Olympic gold medalist,

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Speaker 1: NBA seventy fifth Anniversary team member and lifelong Raiders fan.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk with Dame about Derek Carr, Davante Adams, his

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the Cardinals Raiders game. What does he think

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Speaker 1: of Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray. You know, his beach, their

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Speaker 1: strong arm. Competitive, He's a winning player, so I root

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Speaker 1: for him. You know, I want to see him do well.

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan. I respect him. Dame had a busy

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Speaker 1: summer running his Formula zero camp, being very involved in

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Speaker 1: spend his entire career in Portland as a trailblazer. All

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Speaker 1: that plus a gentleman's bet between Dame and me. You'll

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Speaker 1: Believe me, it's far worse for me if the Cardinals lose,

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Speaker 1: not even close. Dame got off easy if the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: All right, now, let's here from our guest, Portland Trailblazers

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Speaker 1: star Damian Lillard. So first things first, Dame, you've had

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Speaker 1: a really busy summer. Tell me about Formula zero, the

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Speaker 1: camp that you've got going. You're very involved in the

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Speaker 1: commun unity philanthropy, and I know you are very invested

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Speaker 1: in youth sports. Yeah, Formula zero is a I camp.

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Speaker 1: It started with a camp, at least, you know, I

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Speaker 1: got I got bigger plans for it, but it started

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Speaker 1: you know, basketball specifically, and the direction that the game

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Speaker 1: is going in. You know, I've I've trained with my trainer,

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Speaker 1: Phil Beckner, uh since like two thousand and eight, and

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Speaker 1: I've trained with my other trains Chris Farr, you know,

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Speaker 1: since you know, two thousand and ten, two thousand and eleven.

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Speaker 1: But I've known Chris Far my whole life. I've had

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Speaker 1: both of those guys in my life. Man, I've had

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Speaker 1: all these different you know, mentors slash other figure type

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Speaker 1: as a as a person. That's been a huge part

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Speaker 1: who I am as a person, you know. So that's

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Speaker 1: I realized the power of that now that I'm thirty

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Speaker 1: You know, the things that I feel like shaped me.

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Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't make me perfectly like that, but

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Speaker 1: with some of the lessons I learned that you really

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Speaker 1: help a lot of these kids. So formula zero is

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Speaker 1: not about, you know, being Damian Lillard. It's all of

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Speaker 1: those people that I've met along the way. Those are

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Speaker 1: You know, I just happened to be the product of

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things I've always appreciated about you, man.

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Speaker 1: You're You're a humble guy. You're very thoughtful of others

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Speaker 1: I know you had the abdominal surgery and it was January,

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Speaker 1: So now that that's out the way, you know, I

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Speaker 1: your wife. You've got the Mickey Mouse shirt that says daddy.

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Speaker 1: no fast pass, Dame are we anti fast pass? Uh? No?

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Speaker 1: I mean you looked like the average Joe at Disney? Yeah.

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Speaker 1: it's great, it's great. Have you been working on a

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us what the name of it is?

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Speaker 1: The name of the album is don dollars okay, because

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Speaker 1: you're you're like you and Lacree. I don't listen to

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Man. I try to have a solid

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Speaker 1: and you definitely do that, man, you you definitely. I

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Speaker 1: Give me your thoughts and what the Raider. You know

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Speaker 1: and what I'm willing to stand on. And this is

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Speaker 1: this is what I'm willing to stand on a couple

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Speaker 1: more and we'll get you out of your dame. You

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Speaker 1: guys made the conference finals a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the faces and names have changed, obviously,

431
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Speaker 1: see Jay McCullum, who was your teammate for so long.

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Speaker 1: Now in New Orleans, it is your two for Chauncey Billups,

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Speaker 1: one of my former broadcast partners at ESPN, as the

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Speaker 1: head coach. And you know, you guys again, have you know,

435
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Speaker 1: reshaped the roster? How do you feel, given your health

436
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Speaker 1: and where you are and what you were saying earlier,

437
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Speaker 1: how do you feel about the team this upcoming season. Um,

438
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Speaker 1: just being back. You know, we had a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys back early, so we've we've spent a decent amount

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Speaker 1: of time together and I've gotten to you know, not

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Speaker 1: just see growth from a lot of our guys. I've

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Speaker 1: gotten to get to know guys a lot better to

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Speaker 1: to I guess, just gauge you know what I felt

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Speaker 1: like we can get out of them, you know what

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Speaker 1: guys can actually bring. I feel like when you when

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Speaker 1: you learn about who people are, you you learned a

447
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Speaker 1: lot of things that you really need to know. You know,

448
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Speaker 1: if you want to be a successful team. You know

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Speaker 1: the personalities and who people are on the inside counts.

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Speaker 1: You know. So Um, since I've been able to see that,

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Speaker 1: you know how hard guys work just to get to

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Speaker 1: know who you know, who they are as people. And

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Speaker 1: then we get some of our newer guys in. We

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Speaker 1: got Gary Payton and we got Jeremy Grant and uh,

455
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Speaker 1: you know, Aunt it's looking you know, ready to explode.

456
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Speaker 1: I'm feeling healthy. We got Josh hartback, we got you know,

457
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Speaker 1: our seventh picket of draft shading sharp who's all world talent?

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Speaker 1: Uh nads little coming back off injury like feeling healthy,

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Speaker 1: trend and Watford who was undrafted that um, you know,

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Speaker 1: end up getting a guaranteed contract and now you know

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Speaker 1: he's he's one of those do it all type of

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Speaker 1: players with great feel and a good teammate. He can shoot,

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Speaker 1: he can pass, Uh, understands what's going on, Nerk. You

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Speaker 1: know we got we got a lot of guys that, Um,

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Speaker 1: I feel like we have the makings of being a

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Speaker 1: good team. You know, whether whether or not we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a great team, things have to go well. You

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Speaker 1: need some favor um, you know, you need a little

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Speaker 1: bit of luck, and you just gotta be a team

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Speaker 1: that's not fun to play against. You know, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to grind it out and go go take stuff.

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Speaker 1: But I love where I love where we are right now.

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Speaker 1: You know, in this moment, I love where we are.

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Speaker 1: I realized this is probably an unfair question and this

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Speaker 1: could be taken by people listening to this podcast the

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Speaker 1: wrong way. And I'm not trying to trap you with

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Speaker 1: this question. But you know there is there a player

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Speaker 1: like do you absolutely think, like, man, that's a dude

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Speaker 1: that I would love to play with. Not saying that

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a trade or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: But is there like a player like that you haven't

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Speaker 1: had a chance to play with, you like, I love

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Speaker 1: his game, whether it's a young guy or an older guy,

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Speaker 1: love his game and would love the opportunity to play

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Speaker 1: with him. Because you've played with so many star players

486
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Speaker 1: in the Olympics, and obviously you've had some great teammates

487
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Speaker 1: there in Portland. Well, one of those players was Jeremy

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Speaker 1: grant Um. I played with him in the Olympics, and

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Speaker 1: you know I wanted him on my team went from

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Speaker 1: way back then and we got him. But if I

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Speaker 1: had to say one player at this moment without saying

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Speaker 1: star players names, because obviously you know it's a bunch

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Speaker 1: of stars, I would love to play with Janis and

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Speaker 1: you know kd and those typ A guy Jason Tatum.

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Speaker 1: I love to play with those dudes, Kawhi, Leonard, Paul George.

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Speaker 1: You would love to be on the team with them

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Speaker 1: just because they you know, they're that great of players.

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Speaker 1: But if I had to say a player right now

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Speaker 1: that I would want to add to our team, I

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Speaker 1: would say somebody like mcale Bridges or og Na Nobi

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Speaker 1: or Jared Vanderbilt. Somebody like that one of those three.

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Speaker 1: I love those three guys. Is that because you've got

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Speaker 1: a guy that's an elite defender who could also hit

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Speaker 1: the three, who's available, who plays every night, who plays hard?

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Speaker 1: Is that kind of am I reading you right? What

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Speaker 1: you're saying. They defend, they defend, They all have really

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Speaker 1: good size, they can make shots. You know, Jared Vanderbilt

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Speaker 1: does everything. He guards every position, he rebounds, he's a playmaker,

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Speaker 1: he's tough, competitive, you know, he's uh, you know, good

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Speaker 1: feel for what's going on out there. And uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think the other two are similar. You know, they

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Speaker 1: defend really well, they make shots, They play on winning teams.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're tough, they competitive, all of those things.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like that's that's the that's what the

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Speaker 1: winning teams are built like now. So you know, if

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Speaker 1: we could have one of those type of players on

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Speaker 1: top of what we have now, I think that's just

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Speaker 1: for me personally, what I you know what I like?

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Speaker 1: Last one? Uh, you talked earlier briefly about your love

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Speaker 1: for boxing, and you know, I'm sure everybody's seen the

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Speaker 1: commercial with you boxing. How long have you been boxing?

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Speaker 1: Could you do, Like, if you had to do it

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Speaker 1: professionally for a career, could you do it? I boxed

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Speaker 1: a little bit as a kid, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: for the last seven years, I've done it consistently. Uh Like,

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Speaker 1: I've been in the ring heavily. And my trainer always

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Speaker 1: tells me, like, You're not You're not a basketball player.

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Speaker 1: You're You're not a He always tells me, I'm a

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Speaker 1: fighter that plays basketball. And I think, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think when he says that, he just talks about my mentality.

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Speaker 1: You know, like I come to work, I'm consistent. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't back down. I don't I don't waiver. And

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Speaker 1: I think the characteristics that I bring to the table

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Speaker 1: and who he seen me to be every day, you know,

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Speaker 1: since I've known him, you know, for the last eight years,

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Speaker 1: you know, in him working with David Benavidez and Ryo

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Speaker 1: Valenzuela and Jose Benavidez Junior and senior. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: been in that camp. And for him to be around

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Speaker 1: boxing the way he has and him be around me,

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Speaker 1: I think he just sees that. You know, the successful fighters,

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Speaker 1: you know, they operate and think and have a certain

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Speaker 1: type of confidence and sturdiness about him, and I think

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Speaker 1: he sees that in me, you know, so on top

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Speaker 1: of what he seemed me capable of doing in the ring.

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Speaker 1: So he says that to me. But I just at

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Speaker 1: the same time, I just got too much respect for

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Speaker 1: the sport. You know, they say you don't play boxing.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to mess around with my brain and

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Speaker 1: you know, taking punches in none of that. No more

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Speaker 1: than I have to, you know, not even to prove anything.

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Speaker 1: You know, as long as I know that I could

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Speaker 1: properly defend myself and I can protect my family, you know,

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Speaker 1: if something was to ever happen, you know, that's enough

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Speaker 1: for me. You know. Other than that, I'm gonna leave

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Speaker 1: it to the Devin Haynes and Shaker Stevenson's and h

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Speaker 1: Canello and all those all those cats. Man, they got aerospence.

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Speaker 1: But Crawford boots and this do I need to keep going?

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Speaker 1: I got you no, just I'm impressed, man, I'm impressed

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Speaker 1: your knowledge, you know a little bit about everything. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the football stuff was really good, man, you can break

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Speaker 1: it down. Yeah, I mean, I play attention. You know, I'm,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I'm a real Raiders fan. I'm a

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Speaker 1: real blocking fan. So well, listen, I really appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: I've always said, Dame, you know, of all the i'm

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Speaker 1: the NBA circuit, you're one of my favorites because you're

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Speaker 1: such a great leader and teammate and an example for

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Speaker 1: a lot of young people, along with being a Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame player on the NBA seventy fifth anniversary team.

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Speaker 1: And if the Cardinals lose, I will tag you. My wife,

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Speaker 1: who loves makeup, will be making will be painting my

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Speaker 1: face with I'll look like I'm in the black hole,

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Speaker 1: and I will be tagging you on a tweet next week. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So so I look forward to him, and if not,

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Speaker 1: if the Cardinals win, you got to hit me up

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Speaker 1: on when the Kyler jersey's coming out. But I appreciate

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Speaker 1: the time, Dame. Glad you're healthy, have a great season,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see at some point during the year. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: thank you, appreciate you man. I'll see you soon, okay, bro,

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Speaker 1: Thanks man. We covered a lot of ground there with Dame.

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00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: Thought it was interesting. He said, based on his personality

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Speaker 1: who he is, being a loyal person, his plan is

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Speaker 1: to play his entire career with the Trailblazers. He talked

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Speaker 1: about the type of players that he would love to

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Speaker 1: play with for the next several years. He's only thirty

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00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: two years old, still has a long way to go.

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Speaker 1: Had some great thoughts on the Raiders. He said he's

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Speaker 1: a diehard Raiders fan. You can hear it in his voice.

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Speaker 1: He knows a lot about the team. He watches a

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Speaker 1: lot of football, and I thought it was cool too

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Speaker 1: that he's watching the game when Derek Carr audibles by

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Speaker 1: calling out his name, that Dame could read his lips

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Speaker 1: on TV and then knew exactly what play Derek Carr

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Speaker 1: was checking into that it was a bomb in tribute

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Speaker 1: to Damian Lillard being one of the best deep shooters

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. And folks, I'm really hoping the Cardinals win.

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Speaker 1: I always want the Cardinals win, maybe more so than ever.

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Speaker 1: It's one thing to have to wear a Carolina Panthers

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Speaker 1: NFC championship T shirt to interview Steph Curry in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: It's another to have to look like a member of

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Speaker 1: the Black Hole and paint your face silver and black.

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Speaker 1: So if the Cardinals lose, unfortunately, I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: do that and put it out on social media next week,

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Speaker 1: can work on. Also, if you have some guests you'd

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Speaker 1: like to hear from at some point in the future,

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Speaker 1: let us know that as well. Our thanks to future

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer and one of the best players in

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Speaker 1: the NBA, Damian Lillard, and also thanks to you for

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